Minor English Poets, 1660-1780: A Selection from Alexander Chalmers' The English Poets, 1. köideDavid P. French B. Blom, 1967 |
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... peace , you have a prince , you know , As fit for both , as both are fit for you ; Furious as lightning , when war's tempest came , But calm in peace , calm as a lambent flame . Have you forgot those happy years of late , That saw ...
... peace , you have a prince , you know , As fit for both , as both are fit for you ; Furious as lightning , when war's tempest came , But calm in peace , calm as a lambent flame . Have you forgot those happy years of late , That saw ...
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... peace , and noble liberty , Should so much of our old disease retain , To make us surfeit into slaves again ! Slaves ... Peace was the choice , and their debates were clos'd . But , oh ! Through all this isle , where it seems most design ...
... peace , and noble liberty , Should so much of our old disease retain , To make us surfeit into slaves again ! Slaves ... Peace was the choice , and their debates were clos'd . But , oh ! Through all this isle , where it seems most design ...
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... peace disturb'd , their plenty , or their trade . And what can they to such a prince deny , With whose desires the greatest kings comply ? The arts of peace are not to him unknown , This happy way he march'd into the throne ; And we owe ...
... peace disturb'd , their plenty , or their trade . And what can they to such a prince deny , With whose desires the greatest kings comply ? The arts of peace are not to him unknown , This happy way he march'd into the throne ; And we owe ...
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